Artist Friends

This giveaway is done, the winner was announced last week. Thanks for coming by! Today I am reviewing Cathy Taylor’s new book, Pigments of Your Imagination: Creating With Alcohol Inks. If you think this book sound fabulous, I don’t blame you, it is! Leave a comment below for a chance to win a copy! I will draw the winner’s name Monday the 16th at 5pm MST. Sorry, I forgot to say continental U.S. only. Good...

Bonnie Stahlecker was my first book arts teacher. We are trading goddesses, you can see the one I sent to her here. She needed a goddess of lost tools, I needed the goddess that all bookmakers need, the Glue Goddess. She came in this lovely box in the mail, carefully packed. The best, very best, kind of mail. Isn’t she grand? The box holds her colorfully and securely. She waves her glue brushes around like it is no big deal to glue anything. She would almost appear cavalier about the glueing thing if her hair did not look so worried. I am pretty sure all my glueing experiences will be...

ARTISTCELLAR has done it again! Their new series of stencils in the Artists’ Signature series are designed by Tamara Laporte. Tam has two sets of stencils. One is doodled words called “Inspiration Series” and the other is flowers, stars and hearts, row houses and butterflies. That one is called “Whimsy Series”. I used some of each series in this project. First I painted a 12″ paper mache star with black gesso. Then I taped the stencil to the star and used Viva Color Ferro Special Effect Paste with a credit card to scrape over the stencil. This fab paste...

I want you to meet my new friend, Kate Thomson. She is talented, kind, interesting and smart. She is just want you want, and lucky me, I have, in a new friend. Kate is a mixed media artist that taught at Art & Soul in Portland for the first time this month. We shared a river-view room, and many stories of art and teaching it. She has been focused more in online classes which you can find here. Kate left before I did, and when I came back to the room that was empty of her sweet presence I found this. Isn’t it wonderful when we make these connections? I hope to know her for a very...

Pam Carriker has written a new book and want to chat with you about it tonight on Facebook! She will be giving away signed copies every half hour, and some of the contributors (like me) will be online too. Here is one of the pieces of mine that is in her book. I call it Orange Jungle City. Hope to “see” you...